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United Kingdom and United States
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Attachment Theory
Bowlby's theory that infants are wired to seek a caregiver's protection, and that the caregiver's responsiveness, first measured by Ainsworth's Strange Situation, sets a template for how the child expects relationships to work.
10 min
ConceptCorrelation and Causation
Two variables moving together tells you they are related, not that one moves the other; only a controlled experiment licenses the word 'cause.'
9 min
ConceptHypnosis
A procedure that uses suggestion to produce marked changes in perception, memory, and voluntary action in willing, highly suggestible people, whose reality and mechanism are still contested.
10 min
ConceptSocial Identity Theory
The theory that sorting people into groups, even trivial and arbitrary ones, is enough by itself to make them favor their own group.
10 min
ConceptStatistical Significance
The p-value measures how surprising your data would be if nothing were going on, and almost everyone reads it as something else.
10 min